Juan 8:15

The Pharisees were evaluating Jesus only by using the external facts about Him that they knew. They were going about the evaluation process in a typically human way (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:16). Jesus used "flesh" (Gr. sarx) here in a metaphorical sense meaning human nature. His critics should have considered the spiritual teaching about Jesus’ identity that the Father was providing through the witness of the Old Testament, John the Baptist, and Jesus’ miracles too. Jesus did not judge (Gr. krino) anyone superficially, and they should not either.

Another interpretation is that Jesus meant that He did not come to condemn anyone but to save them (cf. John 3:17). [Note: Bruce, p. 189.] However that view only involves Jesus playing with words to make a pun. He seems to have been contrasting His judging with the Pharisees’ judging. Another unlikely view is that Jesus meant that when He did judge people it would not be He that was really judging. Rather He would only be executing the Father’s will (cf. John 5:27; John 5:45). [Note: Blum, p. 303.] The problem with this view is that the Father has committed all judgment to the Son (John 5:27-29), and Jesus will judge eventually.